The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-04-13
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Items OF Interest Gathered from Various
Quarters.

A confagration in Clarksvilie, Tenn,
caused loss of $250,000.
Montgomery has postponed her inter
State drill until May. 1888.
The prohibition amendment III Michigan
is surely defeated by about 5000.
General Logan'S novel. The Volunteer
Solder, will be published early in May.
Colonel Iugersoll is to write his religious
Of DR.. McGlynns theology.
Hyseia Hotel Eirgta, sold for $3352 800
Il was bought by Mrs. Phoebus.
The work of evicting delinquent tenants
will begin on Lord LansdowneS estate on
April 60
Prince Alexander Of Batten5erg has
again declined to be reelected as ruler OF
Bulgaria.
There IS no apparent change in the situa-
son Of the cotton handlers strike in New
orleans.
The Texas Legislature has adopted rcso-
lvtionS expressing sympathy with the pee
PIE of Ireland.
y Legislative committee has been ap-
bo2Gholders CT Virginia.
Delegates representing $4,000 Welsh
miners met at Rhonda and adopted a reSo-
luton denouncing the Irish coercion bill.
At Memphis, Tenn, on Sunday, nine
persons were seriously but not fatally poi
soned by eating ice-cream at dinner party.
The Secretary of the Interstate Com
merce Commission will receive s., 500 per
year.
Ben Pecley Poore's "reminiscences" :"
q:ioted al over two continents, have netted
that author but $500.
Ex-Pres;dent Jefferson Davis will pro3az
by deliver az address before the William
Jewell College, Kansas City, DO.
According to Congressman Townsend,
Sunset Cox will be the next chairman OF
tie ways and means committee.
Col. George Johnstone. charged with the
r.2rder CT John B. Jones at Newbcrry, has
been admitted to bail in the sum of 1900.
Secretary Whitney has decided to push
10 completion the work on the cruisers At
lauta, Boston and Chicago.
President Cleveland is said to be saving
three-tifths Of his salary for use when the
rainy day Of the proved dawns.
The wholesale boot and shoe house of S.
\. Brickhouse & Co.. Norfolk, Va, has
assigned Liabilities 100000; assets ABOVE
that amount.
4 large tract Of Mississippi pine lands,
comprising about 10000 acres, has been
purchased by a party of Michigan capital
lists.
Four thousand emigrants were started
West from Castle Garden, New York, Sun
day, being accumulation Of arrivals since
Friday.
The prevailing drought in Texas added
to the results of last years drought, is caus-
iag the Legislature to consider the suspeD-
sion of tax collections.
Plans have been perfected for connecting
the Norfolk and Western with the Louis
vile and Nashville railroad lines This is
said to be big thing for Norfolk.
George Westinghouse adds another 500
out of his own pocket to the death benefit
cf 500 paid by the Westinghouse Air
Brake Company Employees Relief Society.
The first days canvass for funds to hold
aa interstate drill in Montgomery, Ala, !,
in June resulted in the raising Of $4,000.
The whole amount to be raised is $50, Gee.
Senator Palmer, of Michigan, is going
to bolster up his boom by building : hall
for the G. \. R. posts Of Detroit to use.
The Secretary of the Navy has invited
sealed proposals from shipbuilders Of the
United States for building five new war
vessels.
4. bill was passed by the Senate Of Penn
sylvania providing that punishment for
murder in the first degree may be death By
the Use of electricity.
Major Edwards, who wants to be Mayor
Of Fargo, Oak, is one Of the heaviest
statesmen in the country. He tips the beam
At 3371 33331 pounds.
Ex-United States Treasurer Jordan. who
crossed the ocean with eX Secretary Man
ning. passes most of his time with the lat
ter at B0urncmouth.
Mrs. Lamar has finally returned from her
visit TO Georgia, aid the Secretary of the
Interior can again be approached by callers
wAo left their revolveTs at home.
John G. Saxe's later life derived no ad-
di;!onal sweetness from the fact that he
once received $1,000 per year for writing
cae poem aweek for the New York Ledger.
The dwelling of Mr.. E. J. Moody, six
miles above Marion, was burned Monday,
while Mr.. Moody and his son were both in
Marion. Loss about $4,000; insurance
said to be $4,000.
The United States grand jury in San
Francisco, Cal, has returned forty indict-
merts of conspiracy and perjury against
land swindlers, including several Federal
officers
On account Of the report that negro mill
tary companies will be admitted to the ma
tional drill, it is probable that the Capital
Light Guards, of Jackson, will withdraw
from the drill.
Arthur Sullivan, young New York
book keeper who was arrested for stealing
church property from St. Stephens Church
on March IS, pleaded guilty, and was sen
fenced to six years IN the State prison.
One Of the most munifccnt recent gifts
70 churches is that of the Rockefeller
brothers, John D. and William-$s5. 900
in alto the Tabernacle Baptist Church Of
New York.
There is a reliable" rumor from the ma
t;oaal capital to the effect that ex-senator
Nfancne is TO succeed the unsophisticated
Jones as chairman Of the Republican ra-
tional committee.
Lord Randolph Churchill says chat his
resignation resulted in the direct saving Of
q 400, ,000, while opposing the scandalous
waste Of public money in the War and Ad-